Henry Louis Gates Quotes
I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'

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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy, and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms and molecules, stuff we don't normally interact with.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
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Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.
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I have not won far more awards than I have won.
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I don't want to be a queer icon. I want to be an icon.
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Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.
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You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
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The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.
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I would like to do a series about sequencing the human genome, and also analyze more human diversity among other ethnic groups - a 'Faces of America 2.'